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BULLETPROOF GLASS AND ARMOR Tinted glass and all-over lightweight Kevlar armor can withstand shots from a .44 magnum...
...What the f--- are you doing?" a G.I. bellowed at an Albanian man who had slipped into him on an icy Vitina street. The soldier then "head-butted" the man with his Kevlar helmet, bloodying his nose, before Ronghi walloped him "with great force" in the head, leaving him dazed. The man, the Army report said, was later discovered to be deaf-mute. In another case, a U.S. soldier used his machine gun to pin a man against a wall who seemed unwilling to answer questions; he was later found to be deaf...
...contrast, carries four times as many people as the Concorde but costs half as much to maintain. The fixes to the supersonic plane could include tires that resist rupture and explosion, reinforcing the protection of fuel tanks and perhaps coating the underside of the wings with tough materials like kevlar. Even minor changes would be uneconomical. Says R.E.G. Davies, curator of air transport at the National Air and Space Museum, who has written a book on the Concorde: "If it needs yet more money spent on it to make it safe, this...
...Wednesday, for 1.9 miles each way - we're to work our way up to 10 - there was nothing but the crunch of thoughts inside of our Kevlar helmets. Almost refreshing enough to carry me through 18 hours of KP the following...
...they got only some of the answers. Clinton Administration lawyers brandished the privilege they are busy trying to invoke: officers will answer general questions about what they do and where and how, but the minute the queries turn penetrating, out comes the legal Kevlar. Lew Merletti, director of the Secret Service, has made it clear from the start that he will fight Starr all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent his agents from testifying in court. And Starr's prosecutors have been just as unyielding in carrying out their boss's vow to "run down every lead" about...